"Touch
The Universe" takes people on a voyage of discovery, starting at
Earth and ending at the edge of our understanding! This new Braille/Large
print book reveals the universe in greater distances as seen through the
eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope. Beginning at Earth orbit, we move
through the solar system and view images of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
Beyond the solar system are places of star birth and remnants of star
death. A collection of hundreds of thousands of stars form a huge globular
star cluster. Moving beyond the stars reveals great "islands of stars"
in space called galaxies. Our view ends with the Hubble Deep Field of
Galaxies - an incredible mosaic of previously unseen galaxies, billions
of light years away from Earth!

Touch The
Universe contains descriptive text in Braille and Large Print and 14 unique
colorful tactile illustrations of astronomical objects. The text and tactile
images were created by Noreen Grice. Dr. Bernhard Beck-Winchatz of DePaul
University was the science advisor and Benning Wentworth III of the Colorado
School for the Blind and Deaf evaluated the text and tactile images with
his students.

If you have
partial eyesight, you can try the Flash version of our website which is
not accessible with assistive technology. You can always reload www.spacewander.com
to come back to the text-only version!